What are Post-colonial Literatures?

- Literature produced by the former colonies of Europe, but more specifically our concern with the literature from former British colonies.

- Does it merely refer to a national culture after the departure of the imperial power?

- In the essay, the term refers to all the cultures which were affected by the imperial process, from the moment of colonization to the present day

- Literature of African countries, Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Caribbean countries, India, Malaysia, Malta, New Zealand, Pakistan, Singapore, South Pacific Island countries and Sri Lanka are all post-colonial literature.

- ‘What each of these literature has in common beyond their special and distinctive regional characteristics is that they emerged in their present form out of their experience of colonization and asserted themselves by foregrounding the tension with the imperial power, and by emphasizing their differences from the assumptions of the imperial centre’ [2] This makes them distinctively post-colonial.

Post-colonial Literatures and English Studies: